Politics category: 19839 books
by J. Colman
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
"John Colman has presented us with a profound and scrupulously detailed inquiry into how Lucretius understood the tensions between the philosophic life and the requirements and characteristics of the life of political action—tensions with which Lucretius had to deal in his endeavor to bring...
by Bonnie Honig
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions....
Extraordinary Responsibility
Politics beyond the Moral Calculus
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Careful attention to contemporary political debates, including those around global warming, the federal debt, and the use of drone strikes on suspected terrorists, reveals that we often view our responsibility as something that can be quantified and discharged. Shalini Satkunanandan shows how Plato,...
Palestinian Politics and the Middle East Peace Process
Consensus and Competition in the Palestinian Negotiating Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Eight years after the second Palestinian uprising, the Oslo accords signed in 1993 seem to have failed. The reasons for the failure continue to fascinate students, politicians, researchers and policymakers alike. This book explores one of the major aspects of the bilateral peace process – the composition...
Law, Politics, and the Constitution
New Perspectives from Legal and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The fourth Yearbook of the Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists reassesses central concepts of modern constitutionalism between the poles of law and politics: separation of powers, constitutional review, and constitutional rights and obligations. Fourteen...
Politics, Gender, and Concepts
Theory and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have systematically mapped out a gendered approach to issues in political analysis and theory development....
by Henriette Gunkel
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state’s politics. This book is a fascinating reflection on the effects of these discourses...
No Holding Back
The 1980 John B. Anderson Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
No Holding Back tells the story of John Anderson's 1980 presidential campaign. Anderson gave up a safe seat in the House of Representatives, a position in the Republican leadership, and a likely nomination for a Senate seat to run what every expert considered a hopeless race for the GOP presidential...
Politics on a Human Scale
The American Tradition of Decentralism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In Politics on a Human Scale, Jeff Taylor examines political decentralization in the United States, including agrarianism, states’ rights, the abandonment of the decentralist impulse by the national leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the dissident tradition on the contemporary...
by Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Is whether we contract cancer—and whether we survive the disease, if we get it—largely just a result of good versus bad luck, or are these outcomes regarding cancer tied to the policies and actions of our federal government? Cancer-treating drug development and approval is overseen by the U.S....
The House of Governors - A New Idea in American Politics Aiming to Promote Uniform Legislation on Vital Questions
To Conserve State Rights, to Lessen Centralization, to Secure a Fuller, Freer Voice of the People, and to Make a Stronger Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
"The House of Governors" is a pamphlet published by William George Jordan in 1907 that deals with the ideas of uniform legislation, state rights, centralisation, and democracy in US politics. It was circulated to each state governor, US President Theodore Roosevelt, and members of his cabinet. The...
by Anthony J. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book is a revision of Anthony Payne's 'The Politics of the Caribbean Community, 1961-79: Regional Integration amongst New States', and is the only one of its kind to offer a full account of the period from the end of Federation to the beginning and early years of CARICOM. Expanding on the previous...
Pride Parades and LGBT Movements
Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe,...
The Politics of Civic Space in Asia
Building Urban Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance...